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Did Assad just use nerve gas against the rebels?

Al Jazeera said seven people died after inhaling a gas sprayed by government forces in a part of Homs held by the rebel Free Syrian Army. “We don’t know what this gas is but medics are saying it’s something similar to sarin,” rebel Raji Rahmet Rabbou told the Qatar-based news organization.

The “poisonous material” was deployed by government warplanes, Haaretz reported, citing a rebel statement.

Al Jazeera posted two videos it said were obtained from “a field clinic in the city.” The graphic videos indeed appear to depict victims of sarin or some other nerve agent — though again the origins and contents of these videos have yet to be verified by other sources.

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They didn’t just use the chemical weapons that were moved across the border from Iraq to Syria right before Operation Iraqi Freedom did they? Might these be the same non existing weapons that no one talks about just like the non-existent Syrian nuclear program that Israel bombed in the desert? Any other time people love to gossip, about this stuff people are strangely quiet.

They didn’t just use the chemical weapons that were moved across the border from Iraq to Syria right before Operation Iraqi Freedom did they? Might these be the same non existing weapons that no one talks about just like the non-existent Syrian nuclear program that Israel bombed in the desert? Any other time people love to gossip, about this stuff people are strangely quiet.

The rebels are also posting videos of chemical experiments they’re conducting on rabbits. In one a guy is slapping on a glass enclosure with said dead rabbit warning the SAA will get some of the same. There is no real truth coming out of Syria on either side.

And the funny part, both sides blame the US and the West for interfering. Even the side obama gave money and weapons too.

I concur with the skeptics. Seems like about every other year, some group claims they were attacked by some super secret weapons that causes their skin to burn or their hair to fall out or develop insomnia go impotent or sing like Ke$ha or whatever. On the other hand, such things are usually blamed on the Jews…..

Somebody needs to give these “PR” guys some lessons in basic fact gathering. Sarin is odorless, colorless, and tasteless. That’s why the Tokyo attack was so successful (from the terrorists point of view – nobody knew they were under attack until it was too late.

Even then, it took the medical system to figure it out – not the first responders.

I have been listening to the 40K of his own citizens meme for at least three months. Where are the bodies? Where are the grave digging squads? Where are the funeral processions?

There should be so many funerals that they should show up on sat images.

They are lying. All of them. And we are providing weapons and money to al-Quada. Wonderful.